A Palestinian prisoner, left, greeted a relative from inside the Red Cross bus that carried her from an Israeli prison on Friday to Ramallah, West Bank. Israel released 20 Palestinian women from its prisons in exchange for a video from the militant Islamic group Hamas showing an abducted Israeli soldier.
(David Silverman/Getty Images)

Captured Israel Defence Forces soldier Gilad Shalitwas seen on an Israeli news channel broadcast on Friday. In exchange for the prisoner release, the broadcast showed two minutes and 40 seconds of Mr. Shalit looking healthy after more than three years in captivity at the hands of Gaza militants. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)

Dr. Elena Bodnar, left, winner of the IgNobel Public Health Prize, strapped part of a bra that converts into a pair of gas masks to the face of Wolfgang Ketterle, 2001 Nobel Laureate in physics, at an IgNobel awards ceremony Thursday at Harvard University. Dr. Bodnar said her design could have been useful during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (Steven Senne/Associated Press)

A family member mourned the loss of a loved one as she waited to transport the body away for burial on Friday in Padang, Indonesia.
A magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck Wednesday under the sea northwest of Padang, killing more than 700. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

West Virginia’s Noel Devine tried to stay inbounds as coach Bill Stewart, left, looked on, during the fourth quarter of an NCAA football game against Colorado Thursday in Morgantown, W.Va.
West Virginia won 35-24. (Jeff Gentner/Associated Press)

A man stopped for a moment outside the main mosque in Conakry, Guinea, Friday, while looking for the bodies of family members and friends killed in the city Monday. Guinea’s independence celebrations Friday were somber as the government prepared to bury the 57 people killed when troops fired live ammunition at the pro-democracy rally. (Schalk van Zuydam/Associated Press)

An employee held a 17th-century Mughal jade drinking cup at Sotheby’s auction house in London on Friday. The drinking cup is one of only three comparable jade bowls in existence and is expected to sell at auction for between $316,965 and $475,532 next Wednesday. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)

A devotee offered prayers as pigeons flew around a Buddhist stupa in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday.
Nepalese Buddhist devotees often feed pigeons in religious courtyards and shrines during prayer time in the morning. (Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press)

A toilet was all that remained Thursday of a home in the tsunami-destroyed village of Lalomanu on Samoa’s southern coast. (Tim Wimbourne/Reuters)

Firefighters prayed in Tehran on Friday. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)

Turkana women attended a drought and peace meeting in the northwest Kenya village of Lobei Friday. The Turkana people, locked to their land to avoid conflict with neighboring communities, have endured the drought’s worst. Livestock deaths abound due to extreme heat and lack of water and pasture. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)

Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger did his pre-flight routine before piloting a flight to North Carolina from New York Thursday. In January, Mr. Sullenberger brought a crippled U.S. Airways jet to an emergency landing on New York City’s Hudson River after the plane’s engines blew out moments after take-off. (Seth Wenig/Reuters)

Supporters of the main Greek opposition socialist PASOK party and its leader, George Papandreou, waved flags during the party’s preelection rally in Athens on Thursday. Greeks go to the polls on Sunday. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)

During a taping of his late-night show Thursday, David Letterman said he had had sexual relationships with female employees and that someone tried to extort $2 million from him over the affairs. CBS said Friday an employee had been charged with attempted grand larceny in the case. (CBS/Associated Press)

Canadian Guy Laliberte talked during a post-docking news conference Friday with crewmembers from the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station. Circus billionaire Mr. Laliberte, dubbed “the first clown in space,” arrived in a Russian spacecraft Friday for a 10-day stay that cost more than $35 million. (NASA TV/Reuters)

New England’s fall foliage met with an early snow in Franconia, N.H., on Thursday. (Jim Cole/Associated Press)

Amorita Maharaj is only part correct. She forgot to note that Mr. Shalit has been kidnapped and is being held for a ransom of release of prisoners -- lest he be murdered at the hands of his captors. That behavior may seem warranted in the eyes of the various kinds of "anti-Zionists," but kidnapping and extortion with threat of murder isn't ever good. Simply, two wrongs don't make a right. Until both Israel and Palestinians get serious about letting Jews live in peace, Palestinians will teach their kids to hold guns instead of Jewish childrens' hands. And THAT'S something we all would be better to encourage.